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Bracing ppl. a. World English Historical Dictionary

Bracing ppl. a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bracing ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ING2.] That braces, girds, etc. Now used chiefly of the air or climate, formerly of tonic medicines.

1 1750.  Rutty, in Phil. Trans., LI. 476. A powerful … bracing medicine.

2 1821.  Keats, Isabel, xxiv. With belt and spur and bracing huntsman’s dress.

3 1852.  Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., xv. 129. The cold of a more bracing climate.

4 1871.  Napheys, Prev. & Cure Dis., I. v. 154. Dry heat is bracing.

5   Hence Bracingly adv., in a bracing manner, so as to brace. Bracingness, bracing quality.

6 1874.  Ellacombe, in Church Bells, 15 Sept. (1883), 808/1. The bolts had better be put in bracingly, that is, not perpendicularly.

7 1876.  L. A. Tollemache, in Fortn. Rev., March, 341. It [the Engadine] has, moreover, what may be termed a graduated scale of bracingness.

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